If you're looking for a pop of pollinator-attracting color that's resistant to many common pests, consider planting this easy ...

These allium bulbs give pretty yellow star shaped flowers in June and July. They are the same family as your kitchen onions but don't be tempted to eat them or you will get a culinary shock. Plant ...

One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include lenten rose, peony, redbud, azalea, elephant ear, lantana, coneflower, savory calamint and rudbeckia. Alliums, ...

Planting alliums gives you the same punch in the late-spring garden as using onions in cooking — all the elements of the dish will be more pungent and appealing. Flowering alliums are, indeed, part of ...

I adore alliums. You can also call them ornamental onions. But don't be put off. These are nothing like the tear-provoking kitchen onions. These produce magnificent flowers. I have many fond memories ...

No cook would want to be without the common onion, Allium cepa, an essential kitchen staple that figures in cuisines around the world. But not every onion is there to be sliced, chopped or diced — ...

Beautiful and sturdy with a flair for the dramatic, alliums are a graceful way to add color and architectural dimension to your garden. With large globes of tiny white, purple, yellow or blue flowers ...

Alliums have risen again in my garden. Beautiful ‘Purple Sensation’. Gorgeous white ‘Mount Everest’. Weirdly wonderful Allium bulgaricum. And supersize Allium giganteums and others are still to come.

As autumn progresses, garden centers really want to move those familiar spring bulbs like tulips and daffodils. (They won’t keep till next year.) But there are a few compelling reasons gardeners, even ...

My appreciation of a plant is based on two considerations – how it looks and how it performs from year to year. As the moniker Casual Gardener implies, I’m not the most attentive plantsman and at my ...